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TERRE HAUTE,
Ind. -- The 2013 NCAA Cross Country National Championships will take place on
Saturday, November 23rd, at the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center. The men's
10K will begin at noon and will be followed by the women's 6K at approximately
1:15 p.m.

The No. 28 Carolina
men received an at-large team bid for the championships following their
fourth-place finish at the NCAA Southeast Regional. It is their first team national championship berth since 1991 when the team finished 22nd.

Annie LeHardy
also earned an automatic individual bid from her seventh-place finish at the
Southeast Regional. She ran her 6K in a personal best 20:19.7.

In order to be
eligible to participate in the championships, teams and individuals qualified
in their respective NCAA regional competitions. Thirty-one teams were selected
to participate in each championship. The top two, seven-person teams
automatically qualified from each of the nine regions, for a total of 18 teams.
Thirteen additional teams were selected at-large.

Thirty-eight
individuals were selected to participate in each championship through an
automatic qualifier and at-large selection process. All individual qualifiers
finished in the top 25 in their region. All of the national championship
qualifiers are listed below: